Improvement in tables



RUDOLPH WEBER, OF ETNA BOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,997, dated April23, 1872.

SPEcIFrcATIoN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH WEBER, of Etna Borough, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and usefulImprovements in a Combined Dining and Breakfast Table; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention consists of a double-leafed table, with improvedarrangements for supporting the two leaves when required for use.

In the accompanying dra-wing, Figure l is a side view and part sectionof an ordinary table, showing some of the devices used. Fig. 2 is aninverted plan of an ordinary table, showing all the devices used.

To a table, A, of common shape and size, are attached two leaves, B andB', by hinges b. Under the said leaf B, and near its outer edge, areplaced two strips of Wood, O and O1, each having a groove on its innerside. Between these stripsv of wood C and C1, and slightly thicker thaneither of them, is placed a sliding bar, D, of wood or other suitablemaferial, with ilanges thereon to work the same in said grooves. To thesaid sliding bar D is hung a leg, d1, by an ordinary hinge, which, whendown and in position, is so held by the catch d2, and when up by thesprings d3. Firmly secured to the under side of said sliding bar D is aplate, with an arm, O2, extending over the strip G1. This arm -C2 hasattached to its extremity a movable bar, d4, which extends through aslot in the guider d5.

The mode of adjusting my improved table is as follows: When the leaf isrequired for use the leg d1 is loosed from thel springs d3,

when the sliding bar D is moved along the grooves in the strips C and(J1, thereby forcing the bar d4 under the main body of table A, (slotsin frame, a1 and a2, having been made,) which forms a good support tosaid leaf B. For an additional support the leg d1 is placed in position,being so held by the catch d2. When the table is not required for usethe leg d1 is loosed from the catch d2,the sliding bar D pushed back tothe position shown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawing, the leg d1 putlup and held by the springs d3, when the leaf caube let down so as tohang to the side of said table A.-

The devices and mode of operating same used for the support of leaf B'are the same as those used for working the leafB, with the exception ofhaving no extra leg to assist iu the support thereof, and which will bereadily seen by reference to the accompanying drawing.

The advantages arising from my invention are many and obvious, amongwhich are its great security withoutthe usual cumbrous legs; it iseasily adjusted; it is compact and comparatively inexpensive.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

TheV combina-tion of the slide -bar D, as worked in the grooves instrips C and O1, the leg d1, and the bar d4, as attached to the arm O2,operated in the manner described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

RUDOLPH WEBER.

Witnesses:

` MARTIN OBER,

PETER THEIS.

